1Schools of Public Health and Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA

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The estimated relative risk reduction (RRR) for total mortality of 9% for primary prevention is quite similar to the 11-12% found for secondary prevention.123 It is just as accurate to summarise the literature as finding no evidence that statins’ RRR for primary prevention differs much from that for secondary prevention but that their absolute risk reduction …

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